6. Jehoiakim lay down with his ancestors. His son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.
7. The Egyptian king never left his country again because the Babylonian king had taken over all the territory that had previously belonged to him—from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
8. Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king, and he ruled for three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta; she was Elnathan’s daughter and was from Jerusalem.
9. He did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes, just as all his ancestors had done.
10. At that time, the officers of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem and laid siege to the city.
11. Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar himself arrived at the city while his officers were blockading it.
12. Judah’s King Jehoiachin, along with his mother, his servants, his officers, and his officials, came out to surrender to the Babylonian king. The Babylonian king took Jehoiachin prisoner in the eighth year of Jehoiachin’s rule.
13. Nebuchadnezzar also took away all the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace. He cut into pieces all the gold objects that Israel’s King Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, which is exactly what the Lord said would happen.
14. Then Nebuchadnezzar exiled all of Jerusalem: all the officials, all the military leaders—ten thousand exiles—as well as all the skilled workers and metalworkers. No one was left behind except the poorest of the land’s people.